Ok folks I have been getting PM's and post about heading up a nightstalk so here are my thoughts.
First and formost I would like to get all the crappie.com folks that would like to attend together for a meet and greet. I have been to 3 crappie.com gatherings and all 3 have been a hoot full of food, fun and fellowship. Its nice to put a face with a name, and every single person I have met on the board are as good a folk as you will ever meet. I think it would ultimately generate some freindships and banter that would be great for us all. Not to mention I am looking at trading fishing partners with anyone interested in fishing on a bucket with CEB.
I would like to do something that is close to Little Rock as most on the board live close to the Rock and its centraly located for those that dont. I dont care were we go but my thought was the Little Maumelle due to the good lighting, loading, proximity to the interstate ect. Conway is another thought though I dont know much if anything about the lake. Lake Maumelle is out as they close the lake early in the winter. Again I dont care where we go lets just go.
Obviously putting something together involving folks that are married and have kids, school ect, is tough due to all the different schedules. The only weekend I can't do it is the weekend of 2/10/07. Other than that I should be free. You guys and gals that want to attend need to speak up and let me know when you can do it.
I was thinking we could meet late in the afternoon at the parking lot at the Little Maumelle. I could bring a grill and we could cook some burgers and bring a few sides. We all can eat then go get set up for a stalk. CEB is the resident pro out there and might be able to point us all in the right direction related to a good place to set up, or at least those not familiar with the area. We have a number of condos in the area and there are some prime looking areas in addition to the condos.
Finally I would like to do something that would help us all in our fishing. We may not want to do this untill everyone has a chance to get out there and look arround but like I said CEB and I have a number of condos out there already. I was thinking we might have another gathering later on, were we all can bring a couple of condos to sink, then have a nightstalk afterwards. If we get just 5 boats to come and bring 2 condos each. We all would then have the knowlege of where 10 condos were for the effort of sinking 2. We do that twice and each of us would know where more condos were in a mile strectch than you could fish in a day. I guaruntee that all of us would squeeze a few more trips a year if we all had a place we knew we could run out for a few hours and go hit a few condos.
Let me know what you all think and when you think we should shoot for. So far Creekslick, CEB, Gooch, Titleman, Randybenham, Slipcork have shown an interest. Any others besides J hook who is going to probably cry if he is not healed enough to come? Let me know your thoughts fellas and lets make this happen.
